Job Description

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, S\xc3\xa3o Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments\' important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here\'s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



We are currently recruiting for an Associate with experience in preparing and executing valuations for private equity investments, to join the Valuations Group within Finance at CPP Investments. The Valuations Group, specifically within Private Markets has overall accountability and oversight for the quarterly valuation for all illiquid and private investments at CPP Investments. The Valuations Group performs independent quarterly valuations for the following asset classes: private debt, private equity, infrastructure, sustainable energies, and venture capital.

The Associate will be primarily accountable for modelling and report writing of private equity assets, including exercising sound judgment in determining the proper valuation approach and methodologies for new assets, and assets where the Valuations Team has not previously modelled. The Associate will work directly with the Valuations Team managers on enhancing the valuation processes and framework, and seeking opportunities to increase team efficiencies. The role will require close collaboration across teams that include Investment Departments, Operations, Financial Policy & Reporting among others to support ongoing deliverables as well as strategic initiatives.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Organize and execute the quarterly valuation processes and provide insightful valuation analysis to proactively identify material quarterly valuation movements.
• Research, analyze, and evaluate investments within the private equity assets including direct private equity, infrastructure, sustainable energies, and venture capital.
• Build and review complex financial models, assess, and challenge assumptions and test sensitivities, at the asset and portfolio level.
• Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify historical performance trends, detect correlations, identify key value drivers, and perform calibration.
• Prepare detailed valuation reports and valuation highlights for inclusion in Valuation Committee, Audit Committee and other board level reporting.
• Facilitate and coordinate external valuation process and respond to queries or information requests from advisors and auditors.
• Train, mentor, review and validate financial models prepared by junior staffs.
• Monitor global market events (such as tax reforms and significant accounting changes and quickly strategy assessment of valuation impacts).
• Work closely with investment professionals worldwide to execute on the quarterly valuation process and onboard new deals as well as cross functionally with other departments to ensure alignment with our vision, goals, and values.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or Master\'s Degree in Finance, Commerce, Economics or other related discipline.
• Completion or near completion of the Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) designation
• Professional designations such as CFA, FRM, CPA, are considered an asset.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience including minimum 2 years of relevant valuation experience in professional valuation services firms, asset managers, and/or pension funds.
• Solid understanding of how the private equity world works.
• Excellent research, financial modelling, analytical and valuation skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with high degree of professionalism and ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to foster effective working relationships across the organization.
• Team player with ability to deliver in a high-performance culture operating under time-sensitive deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coach a high performing team, ability to coach junior staff in modeling and financial analysis.
• Willingness to actively contribute to a positive and highly effective and collaborative team culture.
• Working experience with business intelligence tools is an asset (e.g., Tableau, Python etc.).
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership & high performance.

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.

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